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Wed, 21 November 2018 19:33

sdas@gradcenter.cuny.edu is currently offline

sdas@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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Hi,

I have merged all the four rounds of the NFHS Individual Recode Data and just looking at the descriptive statistics through the years after some cleaning. The data for birth-weight, measured weight and height for children looks very noisy. I did checked the documents and removed the outliers from the data. Yet, the descriptive statistics looks very noisy. For instance, for the birth weight data of the first child, the data is clustered around round values like 2000,2500,3000, etc. and I cannot find any apparent reason why this is happening. Is the use of birth-weight, measured child weight and height credible for any analysis for all the 4 rounds of the NFHS? I know about a paper by Rohini Pande where she used the measured height of children for the analysis, but that was using only NFHS 3. It would be really helpful if anyone working with the same indicators can help me out with the issue.

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Sagnik Das

PhD Student, CUNY: The Graduate Center

Sagnik

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